Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Allow qcow2 disk images with size zero

2009-10-27 Thread Stefan Weil
Kevin Wolf schrieb: > Am 27.10.2009 15:11, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > >> Stefan Weil wrote: >> >>> Images with disk size 0 may be used for >>> VM snapshots, but not to save normal block data. >>> >>> It is possible to create such images using >>> qemu-img, but opening them later fails. >>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Allow qcow2 disk images with size zero

2009-10-27 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 27.10.2009 15:11, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > Stefan Weil wrote: >> Images with disk size 0 may be used for >> VM snapshots, but not to save normal block data. >> >> It is possible to create such images using >> qemu-img, but opening them later fails. >> >> So even "qemu-img info image.qcow2" is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Allow qcow2 disk images with size zero

2009-10-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Stefan Weil wrote: Images with disk size 0 may be used for VM snapshots, but not to save normal block data. It is possible to create such images using qemu-img, but opening them later fails. So even "qemu-img info image.qcow2" is not possible for an image created with "qemu-img create -f qcow2

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Allow qcow2 disk images with size zero

2009-10-26 Thread Stefan Weil
Images with disk size 0 may be used for VM snapshots, but not to save normal block data. It is possible to create such images using qemu-img, but opening them later fails. So even "qemu-img info image.qcow2" is not possible for an image created with "qemu-img create -f qcow2 image.qcow2 0". This